Green is Beautiful

One of today’s most important industrial designers, Yves Béhar is revolutionising the industry with his special brand of eco-aware humanistic design. Who knew that design could be both hightech and humane at the same time? In one fell swoop, Yves Béhar’s awardwinning XO computer for Nicholas Negroponte’s ‘One Laptop Per Child’ (OLPC) organisation defied the naysayers who refused to believe that technology could be approachable, emotional and low-cost, symbolic of a huge shift in both design and technology thinking.

The idea was to create a USD100 laptop that would lower the barriers that impede access to education, information and communication for the world’s most needy children, a shortcut to learning by giving networked laptops to the areas of the planet that don’t have enough funding to build schools, hire teachers or buy textbooks.

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